{"id":1357,"date":"2009-04-06T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1357"},"modified":"2013-11-14T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:33:43","slug":"pretty-as-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-as-a-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty as a Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I still can&#39;t quite believe that we are getting a real spring this year, but the evidence is all around. Plants coming into bloom, blossom on the trees; and small birds filling the air with song while rabbits frolic in the grass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ltt_0604093369.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ltt_0604093369.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"long-tailed tit\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Long-tailed tit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ltt_0604093374.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ltt_0604093374.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"long-tailed tit\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Long-tailed tit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wren_0604093345.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wren_0604093345.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"wren\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Wren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wren_0604093343.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wren_0604093343.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"wren\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Wren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1dunnock_0604093312.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1dunnock_0604093312.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"dunnock\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Dunnock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sky was remarkably clear of raptors today, or maybe that was because my eyes were focused nearer the ground. I caught a glimpse of this next  beauty as I was heading back after a lunchtime walk. I probably have seen them before, but it&#39;s something I&#39;ve never managed to photograph. It came to rest just beyond a wire fence, flitted around and finally settled more or less with a clear line of sight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/brimstone_butterfly_0604093409.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/brimstone_butterfly_0604093409.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"brimstone butterfly\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Brimstone butterfly<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=238214&amp;picture=9895147\" target=\"_blank\">peacock<\/a> (butterfly), as well as rabbits. Rabbits everywhere, young ones and adults. In one wooded area I was looking around their warren and a head popped up out of a hole, saw me and ducked back down again. A perfect shot missed, but a great moment. I did eventually get some shots out by the fields.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rabbits_0604093429.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Young rabbits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rabbits_0604093443.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Young rabbit<\/span><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens + UV filter.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,992,8],"tags":[33,233,423],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-rabbit","tag-birds","tag-butterflies","tag-rabbits","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}